Iron County register., 1887-04-28

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NEWS AND NOTES.
: A Summary Of Important Events.
MONTREAL capitalists offer to givesl, ,oOo,-
900 to found jubilee hospital
WIN. O'BRIEN, editor of United Ireland,
was to sail for Canada on the oath, to
speak against Lord Lansdowne's tenantry
evictions.
ADDITIONAL arrests of conspirators
against the life of the Gear are reported.
The Car has retired to the palace of
Gatschina for safety.
A LETTER has been received from Prof.
Goldwin Smith, of Oxford University,
favoring a commercial union between
Canada and the United States
SIX THOUSAND Belfast shipbuilders
threaten to strike unless they are paid
weekly instead of fortnightly. 1t is ex.
pected the masters will accede to the de-
mand.
THE excitement over the arrest Of g
French official by German authorities has
spread over Europe and all the financial
centres were unfavorably affected by the
incident.
SECRETARY WHITNEY issued an order on
the 10Th detaching Commodore McCann
from the presidency of the Naval Advisory
Board and ordered him to command the
Boston Navy Yard.
THE Secretary of the Interior has di
rected the consolidation on July next
of the Tule River and Mission River In
dian agencies in California, with head
quarters at Banning.
In recent letter to a gentleman in
Washington, John Bright, of England,
says: 81 hope your future Presidents
may be as wise and firm and patriotic as
your present chief magistrate.
In reply to the st. Louis millers, who
complained of rate discrimination in favor
of Minneapolis. the Interstate Commerce
Commission refuse to act unless upon reg
ular proceedings in which all parties may
be heard.
THE old Sixth Massachusetts, regiment
celebrated, on the 10Th, it's memorable
march through Baltimore's streets and
II 4.
We're showered with Baltimore flowers
this time.
THE Protestant ministers of M ontreal
are protesting against the bill now before
the Quebec Legislature, proposing to
place crucifixes in all courts of law for
the purpose of Strengthening the oaths of
witnesses.
THE decree that all railway passengers
entering Canada must declare on oath to
the customs officers the exact ontents of
their baggage is to be withdrawn in COM
pliance with petition of the railway
managers.
The Ameer of Afghauistan has sent a
battery of artillery, two regiments Of
Jaghoree, Ghilzais, Zoornates, Shilgaris
and Wardaks, all of whom have sworn to
fight against him to the death
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THE San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce on the 18th memorialized the
United States Secretary of the Navy not
to have the war ship Hartford destroyed,
but repaired and kept in the service,
owing to her historical character.
DENMARK, Italy and Roumania have
definitely decided not to participate in
the French exhibition to be held in Paris
in 1889. Belgium has not yet decided, but
has intimated that she will follow the
course pursued by England in the matter.
THE Chicago limited express struck
John Becker, his wife and two-year-old
child at the Mannheim crossing of the Penn
sylvania railroad in Lancaster, Pa, on the
18th, killing both parents instantly. The
child was found on the cowcatcher unin-
jured.
A STATEMENT was filed on the Goth, in
the county clerks office in New York,
Union Telegraph Company, by a two
thirds vote, had increased its capital
81, 200, 600, making a total capital of $751;
200, 600.
A TORPEDO exploded under the torpedo
launch hull on the 10Th in the harbor at
Annapolis, Md, and sunk her in one min
ute and half Ensign Muir was in
charge, and several naval cadets were on
board, but they were all taken off in
safety by an oysterman.
IT is expected that another call for three
per cent bonds will be made in few
DAYS. There are now outstanding $l9,-
S24, 600 three per cents, of which SIC, 491,-
900 are held by National banks, So, 325, 700
by residents of the United States and
$1,000 by foreign residents.
A DISPATCH was received at the Indian
Office on the ed from the agent at Grow
Greek, Oak, in which he states that de-
tachment of United States troops had ar
rived there to assist, if necessary, in car
rying out the Presidents order requirin g
the settlers to leave the reservation.
THE town of Lexington, Mass, cele-
brated on the 10Th the one hundred and
twelfth anniversary of the revolutionary
battle. There was a procession in the
morning, an oratlon in the Town Hall and
children's entertainment. The affair
concluded in the evening with a grand
ball.
Mr.. GLADSTONE writes that he does not
desire general election to Parliament
until the English mind is as ripe on the
Irish question as the Welsh and Scotch
minds are, but that time IS rapidly ad-
vancing. "Anyhow," he says, 81 am
prepared to face anything to defeat coer-
cion."